Art Workshop for special children held

The youngsters painted earnestly, without taking their eyes off the paper, while workshop assistants mixed paints in bowls and handed out sketch pens to them.
Students of Raksha special school engaged in a day long workshop hosted today by Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) as part of the Children's Biennale programme for the current edition of the Biennale.
'We were very keen when the KBF suggested an art workshop because children can be trained through the arts to improve their social, communicative and creative skills', said Raksha special school principal Elizabeth Philip. "And we found that the children feel comfortable and can be themselves when they participate in a project such as this', she said.

The workshop was held in two batches, facilitated by Timira Gupta, an arts-based therapist from Mumbai, who specialises in working with children at risk and differently-abled children.
The intention of the workshop was to engage children with the Biennale's curatorial concept Whorled Explorations.